“It was a nonstatement, nonsensical statement, and didn’t make any sense at all that she would suggest that those talks could go forward as long as the Syrians conducted themselves as a prime state sponsor of terror,” he said on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.

Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daley said her message was “tough and serious.”

“In order for Israel to engage in talks with Syria, the Syrian government must eliminate its links with extremist elements, including Hamas and Hezbollah,” Daly said his boss had relayed to the Syrian dictator.

During the trip, Pelosi, the first female House speaker, also privately pressed for women to be allowed to become lawmakers in the Arab world.

She tried out her counterpart’s chair at Saudi Arabia’s unelected advisory council. “This chair is very comfortable,” she said.

It’s a privilege no Saudi woman has enjoyed, because females cannot become legislators – a rule Pelosi pushed to abolish. With Post Wire Services